We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.... We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it.--Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And like that game with which the Japanese amuse themselves by dipping in a porcelain bowl of water, small bits of paper which, un...til then were indistinct, but, scarcely plunged in the water, stretch, distort, become colored, differentiated, turn into flowers, houses, substantial and recognizable personages,in the same manner all the flowers in our garden and those of Mr. Swann's park, and the water-lilies of the Vivonne, and the good people of the village and their little homes and the church and all of Combray and its environs, all this which takes shape and solidifies, has come, town and gardens, from my cup of tea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to t...he real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »